User blog comment:CrazyCombo/Why in the name of hell../@comment-1512913-20120706154424/@comment-1512913-20120706202833

1) I don't think that if Dante was there, his eyes would have turned red and a blue aura around with him unknowingly repairing the sword, the dramatic music and all that shit.

2) The Yamato wasn't what activated Nero's powers, he was "infected" by an entity and had the Devil Bringer before coming in contact with Yamato, so the "Vergil like Devil Trigger" of Nero isn't due to the sword, and Yamato itself couldn't have spoken to Nero because I don't remember it being a Devil Arm ... in-game it works as such, but it was never stated that "Yamato" is a demon that got transformed into sword or something.

3) It isn't cut material, the novel gives the only explanation to some scenes ... I would call it "expanded material" instead of cut.

Because you could say that the DMC3 manga is cut material and not canon since it's not in the game itself.

4) Sparda had only 2 sons for sure and Dante isn't his father ... Vergil was always a mystery and it fits better than "Sparda's clone" or "3rd son" theories, sounds like Metal Gear Solid ...

Also the demon that have attacked Nero and harmed his arm was an Assault, the arm was transformed after he woke up from a dream about a man pressumed to be Vergil.

Simply, the novel doesn't contradict anything in the game and it actually explains it all and gives hints about the origins of Nero.

It can't be considered a fanfic because it's written by DMC3&DMC4's writer, even though he was no longer an Capcom employee, it got licensed.

Actually the game contradicts itself, when Nero came out from the Saviour's "core" it was without his Blue Rose and Red Queen (and as according to the novel, they have melted) and the game itself supports this ... while in the next scene they are magically back.

Also according to the development history, Nero was supposed to fight Sanctus with Yamato as a Devil Arm and to awake a "true Devil Trigger"

That explains the plothole about his gun and sword being back, the mission 19 was originally supposed to be different but due to development time and budget, it was changed into that chessboard "puzzle" where you fight already dead bosses (facepalm)

There's simply nothing that makes the book non-canon.

It CAN get only retconned, just like everything.

Worked on by the same person and the games, licensed .... how is that not canonical is beyond me.

It wasn't included in DMC4 not because it got cut out of canon, longer development time than intended and to save budget of course.

About DmC, with the current Capcom I have lost faith that a DMC5 will happen